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/lexical

The Lexical Search page fans out from a single query into multiple literature-oriented entry points that are anchored back to IGVF Catalog entities. Every query is sent to the GLKB API, and the results surface identifiers the catalog already understands (PubMed IDs, ontology terms, and MeSH concepts).

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Query Modes

  • Lexical calls search/lexical_search and ranks PubMed articles that match the query. Each hit renders a PMID card and enriches the metadata with PubMed’s E-utilities summary so you can immediately open /PMID:* pages inside the catalog.
  • Semantic calls search/semantic_search with either sentence or abstract scope, returning text snippets plus supporting PMIDs. Those PMIDs again link into catalog article pages, keeping discovery tied to curated biomedical metadata.
  • Entity Name calls search/entity_name_search to resolve catalog vocabulary entities (Gene, Chemical, Disease, Variant, MeSH, Vocabulary, or All). Results expose the canonical label and description, and provide outbound MeSH links when applicable.

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Interaction Details

  • The toolbar lets you tune the result limit, semantic level, or entity type before results load.
  • Navigation links route directly to /lookup, /browse, and /cypher, which reuse the same GLKB back end for downstream exploration.
  • All result cards use catalog-aware links so selecting a PMID or ontology identifier takes you straight to the corresponding IGVF node view.
Together these links collapse the gap between text mining and follow-up analysis: you can start from a disease term or gene symbol, then jump into the IGVF knowledge graph to inspect curated node data without leaving the catalog.